Troops deploy in Rio de Janeiro amid increasing violence

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of soldiers began patrolling Rio de Janeiro on Friday amid a spike in violence in Brazil’s second-largest city.
The deployment of 8,500 soldiers, plus hundreds of police and highway patrol officers, is aimed at fighting organized crime gangs, which control many of the city’s hundreds of slums.
Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said patrols would soon start participating in operations against drug traffickers. That is a break from previous duties tha